The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.

The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.

Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials.

The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. As part of a consent agreement with the federal government, the company is also required to set aside $1.5 million to help the children who were illegally employed. Ryan Pott, general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, the Japanese firm Yanmar, acknowledged the violations to NBC News.

    • Crikeste@lemm.ee
      14·
      8 months ago

      Capitalism demands profits, which demand mistreatment, which results in this.

      But keep banging your drum, guy. You’re the reason nothing changes.

      ☺️

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 months ago

      Abolition of child labor is one of the traditional demands of the American communist movement. Children should be taught a broad base education and be given time to play and rest and parents shouldn’t feel financial pressure to make their child work

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      4·
      8 months ago

      Nothing wrong with a bit of communism. You know unless you like your politics dog whistle simple, in which case i guess you do you.